Celebrate Women's History Month With Theatre In Ocean City

OCEAN CITY, NJ — Honor Women's History Month with a free theatre performance that tells the tale of some local historical and inspiring women, courtesy of the Ocean City Arts Center.

"If She Stood" by Ain Gordon will be presented March 30 at 2 p.m. in the Chris Maloney Lecture Hall of the Ocean City Public Library, 1735 Simpson Ave., Ocean City. It is free and open to the public.

According to the Arts Center:

Through the play, meet Philadelphia’s first multiracial collective of female reformers at the moment they chose to move. "If She Stood" is an immersive theatrical experience in which the performance space is transformed into a 19th century Quaker meeting – the time and place that gave birth to the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. Audiences step into the minds of Sarah Mapps Douglass, Sarah Grimke, Angelina Weld Grimké, and Sarah Pugh, who collectively stood to abolish slavery, literally invent the women’s rights movement and right a host of societal wrongs. "If She Stood" reveals the conversation and the influential deeds of these largely-overlooked heroines and petitions us all to revisit the way we view our city’s rich history. Audiences discover their courageous work which framed the social discourse and struggles that helped shape Philadelphia and the nation as a whole – their story continues to have significant relevance to social conversations we are having today about social equality.

Ain Gordon’s "If She Stood" was commissioned by the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia in 2013. This production is directed by Chase Jackson, Executive Director of the Ocean City Arts Center and stars Sarah Matthews (Cape May), Melisha Anderson (Whitesboro), Kelly Kunik (Ventnor) and Margie Johnson (Newark).

Visit the Ocean City Arts Center website for more information and to reserve your seat, or call (609) 399-7628.